I.G.I. 2: Covert Strike

I can not recommend this game to anyone at all just based on playability as it is seriously terrible and I honestly really wanted this game to work for me as I loved the first I.G.I but this doesn't even come close to anything that had, this game is NO FUN at all, I just couldn't push on after second mission the first mission was painful as it was, but I tried to give it an honest go and I just felt so non fulfilled, great idea poorly executed and you go away with a real sense of a waste of time.

I.G.I. 2 sounds like a good game to me: Being a special military agent with high tech gadgets, sneaking into enemy bases with realistic modern weapons. Unfortunately the developers were able to destroy everything they tried to do. There is a story and it is as stupid and boring as it comes. Once again in the end you fight a crazy general that wants to launch a nuclear warhead, doesn’t this sound familiar? For a game that pretends of being realistic no story at all but just giving you military type missions would had been much better I think. The stealth elements are as crappy as they come. The manual even lies to you that you should consider different ways into a base. But most of the time there is only ONE way to get into the base and only ONE way to finish the mission, always forcing you to shoot yourself through the enemy soldiers instead of sneaking past them. It is impossible anyway. The enemies are placed in a way in which you are forced to fight. This wouldn’t be that bad if they would not have godlike accuracy and can even shoot you from a mile away with a pistol. But even this wouldn’t be that worse if you would not be restricted to a few saves during a mission. But in all other aspects the AI is completely retarded making them easy to kill, especially if they have to go through a door. The outside graphics are good looking, even today, but the inside of buildings is as boring as they come. The models are some of the ugliest I have ever seen and they all walk like puppets on a string, making this game really laughable. Same goes for the cheap 90s style blood effects and the fact that you cannot carry dead bodies away, while you were already able to do this in Thief at the end of 1998! But you are supposed to shoot your way through anyway so even this doesn’t really matter. What matters is that there are much better games out there that combine shooter and stealth elements. Avoid this game at all cost because this is really not worth your time and money.

I also want to play the part 1. IGI 1. Pleae release it. Also release Spider Man games. 2 and 3 on GOG

Game installs and runs ok. Even suppports modern resolutiions including ultrawide. Impressed (not for long, wait for it!) It's HUD is pretty tiny on high resolutions though. But it's very glitchy. "Restart mission" after death never works. Always gives a stuck frozen camera. Doing it over main menu works, loading (max 3) saves also. The actual game...sadly it's bad. Stealth doesn't work well. The mechanics are very unclear. Or the AI random. As a mediocre shooter it kinda works but that's a waste. Worst of all: The collision detection with objects, walls, trees is absolutely horrible! You can't pass by a tree or a rock, because it has a 1m+ invisible wall around. I don't know ikf that's normal but it's a game killer. That and the clunky movement is, what makes the game bad. Sadly. And yes, it is old. But it's not THAT old. It's 2003. That's years after System shock, Deus EX, Thief 1&2, various Rainbow six games. Maybe the collision thing is a bug and wasn't normal? Having non working movement in a 3d game was not accectable anymore in 2003.....

Every time I restart the mission I have to exit the game and enter again. What garbage.